Launched in early March 2020, the COVID19Tracker.ca project was created in order to collect details on all COVID-19 cases from each province in Canada and display them in one place. As the pandemic has evolved, so have we. Now, everything from testing to hospitalizations is tracked for each health region in near real-time in order to provide an accurate snapshot of the current situation of the pandemic here in Canada. Millions of Canadians have visited our website and data has been shared with hundreds of researchers, news organizations and curious members of the public. Our data has been requested by governments at every level, from municipal to federal. Early in the pandemic, we shared our data directly with the Public Health Agency of Canada as they attempted to gauge the level of community transmission in the country. As well, our website was linked in the Government of Canada’s national daily epidemiological report for a number of days in spring 2020. We were the first tracking project in Canada and one of the first in the world to offer an API (application programming interface) for our COVID-19 data, allowing others to freely and easily access our data in real-time. The...
This collection is openly accessible.
COVID-19 Tracker Canada is published on Viral AI.